Looking back : Before the internet

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flight316

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Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week we have acess to the nt to spill our guts out. But many of you are much older than the internet. So that being said, how did you go about tackling all of the problems that you express here on cc way back when. How did you get through all of those lonely nights. . Without the entire world to communicate with, how did you get by. No cable tv, no cell phone, no textixting, no email, no microwave oven. What did you do with all of that time on your hands?
 
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flight316

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I can remember a couple of things. I used to engage with my neighbors. I went to visit family members a lot. I went to church regularly and I was in church organizations. I played sports a lot as a youth and as an adult. No offense but I rarely saw a very large, overweight person, hmmmm. What's your story.
 
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I used to have cable TV, which would entertain me. I used to listen to a lot of music on my stereo (turntable). When I was kid, I used to like to ride around on my bike. Before that, I liked to ride around on my trike. Still don't have a cellphone, and there are no plans, nor any desire, to buy one. (I don't have an answering machine.)
 
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When I was growing up, we had two good TV channels (CBS, NBC)and one fuzzy one (ABC). I used to watch a lot of sports on TV. Not so much now, especially since I don't have cable TV anymore.
 
resurrection33

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I used to read quite a bit, novels and history.
 
T_Laurich

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I love not being consumed by technology... In fact this weekend I am planning on going out into the middle of the forest with my twenty-two and just relax... To me that is a perfect day....
 
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T_Laurich said:
I love not being consumed by technology... In fact this weekend I am planning on going out into the middle of the forest with my twenty-two and just relax... To me that is a perfect day....
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Well, I hope you're not going to leave your cellphone, iPod, and laptop behind.
 
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flight316

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Hey ressurection, bikes were really cool. I loved riding my bike.no cell phone, I get it. I caved under the pressure due to business demands. I also started losing dates. Women are not very understanding when a man doesn't have a cell phone.
 
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flight316 said:
Hey ressurection, bikes were really cool. I loved riding my bike.no cell phone, I get it. I caved under the pressure due to business demands. I also started losing dates. Women are not very understanding when a man doesn't have a cell phone.
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So THAT'S my problem - I don't have a cellphone. Yeah, I loved riding my bike around this little city I grew up in, in northeast Iowa. I would pretend like I was a bus driver.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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I spent very much time outdoors (the after school care for kids actually complained it was difficult to get me in when the weather was bad). Mostly I'd play games with my friends, or we'd go hunt for tadpoles in a nearby pond (read: mudhole).
I attended Sunday school and a christian choir + something called a "leikaring". It is basically a gathering place for kids/ teens where they can meet others, play games, make stuff etc in a safe environment. (it translates literally to play ring).
 
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danschance

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Life before the internet simply did not exist.
 
wisebeardman

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I dont own a cell phone, never will. (side bar comment, funny so many complain about the US Feds spying on the citizens yet a lot of these people have a government tracking and spying device with them at all times A CELL PHONE)

I also don't really watch tv, never have its mostly stupidity. and about all I use the net for is email and looking something up.

I must put forth I find it amusing so many people will call the Internet "social media" (you know facebook,twiter,ect,ect) when in fact its not social. its ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA!

something to be considered an honest SOCIAL media would result in you using your voice ether with a telephone (yes people you can actually talk though a phone) cb radio, ham radio, meeting people in a diner, meeting people on the street are the true forms of social media.
 
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wisebeardman said:
I dont own a cell phone, never will. (side bar comment, funny so many complain about the US Feds spying on the citizens yet a lot of these people have a government tracking and spying device with them at all times A CELL PHONE)

I also don't really watch tv, never have its mostly stupidity. and about all I use the net for is email and looking something up.

I must put forth I find it amusing so many people will call the Internet "social media" (you know facebook,twiter,ect,ect) when in fact its not social. its ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA!

something to be considered an honest SOCIAL media would result in you using your voice ether with a telephone (yes people you can actually talk though a phone) cb radio, ham radio, meeting people in a diner, meeting people on the street are the true forms of social media.
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Church is a form of social media.
 
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flight316

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Hey, hey, I know what, let's all meet at Hardee's and get some breakfast biscuits and sit around for hours. Cooooool, hehehehe. Do you think that young people are reading this thread saying, what the........! I don't care, their day is comin.
 
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Before the internet you got in your car and drove to the library. That meant dressing up, parking the car, etc. If you had children, they had to be taken care of. Now, you have to find the place where the information you are looking for is found, and if it wasn't in that library have them contact a library to borrow the book from where it was found. Sometimes it took weeks to get the information, and sometimes you just couldn't find it.

There was no google to sort information, no method of sorting except hours and hours of going through books. If the research was important to the work you were doing it sometimes meant a trip overseas, even.
 
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flight316 said:
Hey, hey, I know what, let's all meet at Hardee's and get some breakfast biscuits and sit around for hours. Cooooool, hehehehe. Do you think that young people are reading this thread saying, what the........! I don't care, their day is comin.
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Every once in a while I think how nice it would to have a Christian Chat get-together somewhere, or maybe regional get-togethers. I suppose it would be an expensive venture. I know some people here have met each other, though I don't know if they've had any official get-togethers.
 
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flight316

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Man, when I didn't have a cell phone about to years ago, people treated me like I was a cave man. Lol
 
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